Summary: Tough, smaller, focused, independent, but stressed and facing the fight of its life. That's the impression left by Channel 4's 2009 annual report, accompanying press briefing today, and performance so far this year. The slimmed down workforce of 692, nervously enjoying the recent recovery in advertising, are basically gearing up to trial loads of new programmes after the current and last series of Big Brother ends, taking away their decade-long commercial comfort blanket. - guardian.co.uk

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